The lady sharpshooter of the Wild West was born on this day in 1860 (d. 1926). Were she around today, she'd probably be a card-toting NRA member. Nobody's perfect—but maybe your weekend will be. Have at it!
Beth In The Believer Or, When Queer Feminist Punk Bands Meet Paris
Writer Michelle Tea followed Beth Ditto through the whirl of Paris fashion week, and lived to tell The Believer. What's interesting about Tea's account is that it places front-and-center one of the fashion industry's biggest unstated issues: Social class.
Annie Get Your Gun
As PBS' documentary Annie Oakley showed last night, the famed "Little Sure Shot" sharpshooter was a walking, heat-packing contradiction: an advocate of women's self-defense and equal pay, she also didn't believe in female suffrage. [PBS]
Fox News Mouthpiece Doesn't Understand Sex Workers, Art
A couple days ago, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham was sitting in for Bill O'Reilly on Fox News and interviewed Annie Oakley, founder and director of the Sex Worker's Art Show. (The same Sex Worker's Art Show that got William & Mary's president fired
